Photographic Incidents of the War. No. 725. Confederate Dead on the Battlefield, Spotsylvania Courthouse, May 12, 1864. [Gardner Co. stereo card]
Photographic War History. The War For The Union. No. 725. Confederate Dead on the Battlefield. This view was taken near Spottsylvania Court House, May 12, 1864, after Ewell’s attack on the Federal right. The dead man is one of the Rebel General Ewell’s soldiers, just as he fell. There is very little of the “romance of war” to be found in such scenes as this; the fair face of nature is smeared and stained with the blood of the poor victims of war. Every rod of ground hereabouts has one or more dead soldiers laying on it. [Taylor & Huntington stereo card]
Gardner No. 725.
Etched onto negative: 725.
Only a broken left half of the original negative survives.
